Rehabilitation with teenagers: a model for individualized listening skills programmes
✍ Scribed by Tracey Adams; Lise Henderson; Clare Sheridan
- Book ID
- 102072292
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 139 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1467-0100
- DOI
- 10.1002/cii.91
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✦ Synopsis
A survey of UK and Ireland cochlear implant programmes was carried out to ascertain the number of teenagers with implants. Responses were received from 14/19 paediatric and adult programmes and results indicated that 20% of all people with an implant in these programmes are aged 10 to 18 years. In the paediatric programmes, 17% of children referred and 38% of the children with implants are aged 10 years or above.
A need for resources to be developed to meet the specific needs of the teenage population was ascertained and a teenager's rehabilitation resource was developed by clinicians in UK, Ireland, South Africa and Australia, with the support of Cochlear Europe Ltd. The materials were written for the teenage cochlear implant user population taking into account the range of outcomes (Figure ), language and reading ages, varying levels of habilitation provision and a wide range of interests. The aim of the resource was to provide an interesting, individualized rehabilitation manual for teenagers, with 24 topics to choose from, each at three levels of difficulty (levels I to III).
The resource, entitled 'Hear We Go' is in CD-ROM format. The cochlear implant user's name is entered for personalization and a number of topics are selected by the teenager. The level of difficulty is selected by the clinician using the flow diagram 'Selecting the required level'. Once the topics are selected, a rehabilitation manual may be printed out and issued to the teenager to take home. Alternatively topics may be saved to disk, allowing the clinician to edit or add to topics. Topics may also be emailed directly to the teenager in between appointments, when new topics are requested. New topics at different levels of difficulty may be chosen during the course of their rehabilitation.
'Extra' information topics were added that might be useful for the implant user, their families and the professionals. These include advice on communication